Join us for a free opening reception on Sat, Sep 19, 2-4pm to celebrate SculptureCenter’s new fall solo exhibitions by Aziz Hazara, Cevdet Erek, and Yining Fei (all on view from Sep 19–Dec 28, 2026).
Aziz Hazara: Coming Home
“Aziz Hazara: Coming Home” seeks to return material discarded in Afghanistan following the American military’s abrupt withdrawal. At SculptureCenter, the hundreds of items comprising “Coming Home” offer a glimpse into the material remnants of a war waged on the other side of the world. Cumulatively, they record everyday life in a military outpost, bringing into focus the massive human, environmental, and material dimensions of a conflict that Americans primarily experienced through images. Although the exhibition consists of debris—discarded objects from a distant site—it serves as an active and durational engagement with the simple gesture of return, complicated by the infrastructure and legacies of US intervention.
“Aziz Hazara: Coming Home” is curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Director.
Cevdet Erek: Americas
“Americas” arranges five of Cevdet Erek’s site-specific sonic works developed in the last decade alongside a new commission for SculptureCenter. Reworking and rechanneling the murmurs of his previous installations into a new compilation, Erek will create a rhythmic structure that synchronizes with the textures of SculptureCenter’s labyrinthine lower level. His immersive sonic installations distribute multiple frequencies that hold fragmentary chords, custom-built speakers amplify architectural features, and refashioned measuring rulers quantify and make physical beats of time. His site-specific commission will consider two possibly overlapping histories rooted in New York City: the emergence of heavy underground music in the 1980s and “Sound/Art,” a 1984 exhibition at SculptureCenter that contributed to the definition of sound art as a genre.
“Cevdet Erek: Americas” is curated by Jovanna Venegas, Curator.
Yining Fei: Feral Sediment
Feral Sediment centers on the milu, a rare species of deer native to China, whose survival has been mediated by captivity, diplomacy, and modern infrastructure. The exhibition originates in Yining Fei’s observations of the morphological similarities between the lining of the deer’s digestive organs and aerial views of industrialized landscapes, a coincidence that opens an inquiry into what separates wildness from domestication. Working across sculpture, moving image, and installation, Fei constructs the deer’s interior organs as a cosmos in miniature, a space where the biological and the artificial, the intimate and the planetary, converge.
“Yining Fei: Feral Sediment” is curated by Sharon X. Liu, Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.sculpture-center.org/events/14958/aziz-hazara-cevdet-erek-and-yining-fei-opening-reception
